Re: Artificial Intelligence

At 04:46 PM 7/15/97, you wrote:
>At 08:24 PM 7/15/97 -0300, Tom wrote:
>>We're noting Niven's fiction in this discussion,
>>
>
>	Niven's AIs all go insane.  They think so fast and get so bored
that they
>soon generate universes of their own within their own minds...  These
>universes are so much more interesting to them than our own that they
stop
>paying attention.  Either that they become comatose from the boredom.
snip
>	Phil P.

Like the sentient hyperspace-travelling lifts  in The Hitchhikers' Guide
to
the Galaxy...

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